Reviews for Dinner with Friends

The average rating for Dinner with Friends based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-23 00:00:00 Nate Myers Marriages are complicated, and this play is touching some of the most sensitive points with good humor and lots of drama. About how friends and relationships are forming, but also how fragile they are, and how easily they can get destroyed. What would you do if as a couple, your best friends-couple is separating? Are you going to choose a side? Is there even any other option? Are you going to rethink about how do you treat your friends? Are you going to rethink who are your friends for real? Great dialogs, funny moments, sadness, and some small pieces of reality.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-06-05 00:00:00 Gregory Foster Marriage. It is a fifty/fifty roll of the dice that it will succeed (and I am unsure how to define, 'succeed.'). So, if half of the pairings end up in divorce, what about they who stay together? Are they happy? Or are they obligated to it because of family, religion, society, children, and so forth? The ones who stay together, are they still in love? Or have they learned how to 'manage' their relationship, which sounds a bit corporate? And after 10, 20, 30 years, what is the nature of their love (another word I ache to define)? Or are the couples that remain merely lazy, co-dependent, comfortable enough, or scared of change? I do not have any answers. Just questions. Friends for years, they dine together often. They are in their mid-forties, a potentially precarious time for many marriages. One couple is amid dissolution. The other couple, their friends, are apparently happy and cheery and do all their chores together. But each couple, as the separation plays out, is affected in their singular way. And within the two duos exist two distinct individuals, husband and wife, each retaining their own perceptions of what is going on between themselves and with their friends, the faltering pair. A stellar play with crackling dialogue.